{"id":7267,"date":"2013-12-08T15:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2013-12-08T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:50:23","slug":"redskins-finally-pull-the-plug-and-bench-robert-griffin-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/08\/redskins-finally-pull-the-plug-and-bench-robert-griffin-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins finally pull the plug and bench Robert Griffin III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7268\" alt=\"rg3out\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/rg3out.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/rg3out.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/rg3out-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/rg3out-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins has found his way onto the football field for the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>Down 45-10 the Redskins pulled Robert Griffin III from their Week 14 game against the Kansas City Chiefs. It&#8217;s a move some have begged to see for weeks but it took a massive deficit to see it happen.<\/p>\n<p><b>Shanahan almost quit in 2012:<\/b> <a title=\"Report: Mike Shanahan was ready to leave Redskins in 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/08\/report-mike-shanahan-was-ready-to-leave-redskins-in-2012\/\">Did not like owners special treatment of RG3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prior to being benched, Griffin was 12-of-26 for 164 with a touchdown and and interception. He added 29 yards on the ground on four carries.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins came in to replace Griffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins has found his way onto the football field for the Washington Redskins. Down 45-10 the Redskins pulled Robert Griffin III from their Week 14 game against the Kansas City Chiefs. It&#8217;s a move some have begged to see for weeks but it took a massive deficit to see it happen. Shanahan almost quit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216,53],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-7267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-robert-griffin-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}